I attended startupschool about a week ago and that was quite a blast. The folks at justin.tv and omnisio have got the video transcripts up, definitely worth a watch.

I missed the major parts of two talks, and by Murphy’s law, they just had to be two of the top 3 talks I wanted to hear; Paul Buchheit and Paul Graham. We had a production server outage, so I was furiously competing for wireless access point time with 400 other geeks (and PG during his talk… XD).

I did, however, manage to catch this quote from one of PG’s slides:

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

US general (1885 - 1945)

I have recently been reading articles written by Frank Demmler. He’s a Prof at the business school of Carnegie Mellon University. He has seen the problem from all angles, having been in each position at one time or another and he shares his learnings in the series linked above. Be warned; some familarity with the ‘problem space’ and with the terms are needed, but Frank shares his personal learnings which will be a good refresher for veterans and a warning guide for wannabe-n00bs like me. Here’s an excerpt:

“One of things that continues to surprise me is that many board meetings that I have participated in or observed, have been largely a waste of time “


I concur!